Ledge

Barely two months have passed since Summit Entertainment reaped millions from "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1," and it's about to rake in more when "Man on a Ledge" opens Jan. 27. Although the film's 102 minutes centers around Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) and his stay on the 25th floor of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, "Man on a Ledge" is anything but boring. Worthington ("Avatar," "Call of Duty: Black Ops") plays Cassidy, an intelligent ex-cop and escaped fugitive.

Police divers found the body of a man in the New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale late Friday after a day-long search for a swimmer spotted in the early morning, authorities said. The call came in just before 3 a.m. about a man in the water near the Downtowner Restaurant, which is near the South Andrews Avenue bridge, Police Detective DeAnna Greenlaw said. Police identified the man as Blair Robinson, 21. They said he was visiting from out of state. The river is known for having treacherous waters.

Two police officers talked a Boynton Beach man out of jumping onto Interstate 95 from an overpass Sunday afternoon, police said. Anthony Wetzig, 22, was taken to South County Mental Health Center in Delray Beach after he was persuaded to step back from a ledge on Southwest 23rd Street by Officers Richard Ross and Roger Cash, according to Boynton Beach Police Lt. Lores Gamble. Wetzig had positioned himself on the small ledge overlooking the northbound lanes of I-95 shortly before 2 p.m., he said.

Barely two months have passed since Summit Entertainment reaped millions from "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1," and it's about to rake in more when "Man on a Ledge" opens Jan. 27. Although the film's 102 minutes centers around Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) and his stay on the 25th floor of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, "Man on a Ledge" is anything but boring. Worthington ("Avatar," "Call of Duty: Black Ops") plays Cassidy, an intelligent ex-cop and escaped fugitive.

BOSTON -- Federal divers on Saturday found the rocky ledge where the Queen Elizabeth 2 damaged her hull a week earlier, and they said it was uncharted. Divers aboard a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship, the Rude, discovered "an expanse of pulverized rocks" on Saturday afternoon within a tenth of a mile from where the QE2 reported running aground on the night of Aug. 7, a spokesman, Brian Gorman, said. Given the location of the ridge and the condition of the rocks, Gorman said, the divers think they have found the previously "unknown obstruction" that the QE2, the flagship of the Cunard Line, hit off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts.

MIAMI -- A football fan who fell 13 feet from a ledge at the Orange Bowl was alive Wednesday, thanks to a cardiologist who saw the man bleeding on the ground. Alex Riocabo, 31, of Hialeah, was in critical condition Wednesday at Mt. Sinai Hospital following brain surgery Tuesday. Police said Riocabo fell on his head from the ledge Monday night at the Miami Dolphins-New England Patriots football game. Dr. Bruce Boros came upon Riocabo moments after he fell.

LAUDERHILL -- A man discovered his wallet was missing after visiting the West Indian Grocery on Northwest 19th Street at 3:40 p.m. on April 10. The man later found his wallet on a ledge outside a nearby store, but it was missing $35.

A Coral Springs Middle School student remained in a Washington, D.C., hospital on Friday, one week after he was injured when he fell from a hotel window ledge during a school-sponsored field trip. Chris Toppas, 14, fell about 30 feet from the ledge as he returned from visiting students in another room about 1:30 a.m. last Saturday, a school official said. Though students were told not to leave their rooms at night, Toppas went to another room by climbing out the window, Assistant Principal James Silverberg said.

Product: Ledge covers made by Swim n' Play of Rahway, N.J., and installed on about 1,465 above-ground swimming pools. The triangular plastic caps, designed to mask joints on the pools' outer edges, were sold from 1980 to 1994 for eight pool models. -- Problem: The covers do not properly cover sharp edges of the pools' sheet metal ledge. A young girl cut her nose and eye lid on a pool ledge. -- What to do: Call Swim n' Play at 1-800-632-3483 for free replacement ledge covers. -- Product: About 18,300 women's cotton sweatshirts made by Zig Zag of Hoboken, N.J., and sold from July 1995 to February 1996 in Dots stores.

ISLAMORADA -- You`d think the self-proclaimed Sportfishing Capital of the World took a direct hit from Hurricane Andrew, judging by the lack of anglers here. Driving through town on a weekday, one sees entire charter fishing fleets moored at their docks. Heading into the backcountry in a skiff, you have your choice of bonefish flats. Weekends are busier, but not what they should be. Maybe people are too occupied rebuilding their lives to go fishing. But if the urge to wet a line gets to be too much, they can`t go wrong here.

"You're probably not going to get this," Amanda Schlecter said this as we chatted by phone about her Ledge Pillow for women who?ve had breast augmentation surgery or are nursing. I was just about to ask her how she could tell over the phone, when I realized she was most likely right. ?I remember having to put band-aids over my nipples when I jogged back in college or ran cross-country back in high school,? I offered sheepishly. It has been so long it can hardly be called a memory...more like an impression.

He's about to cry, he doesn't want to swim and he's looking at two whole weeks of this. Coconut Palm Elementary kindergartner Joshua Finley and his classmates are starting water-safety lessons. He and 17 others sit on the pool ledge as part of Broward County's quest to prevent childhood drowning. Lifeguard Bruce Carlton pulls off his sunglasses to make eye contact. "Don't cry, we'll do this together," Carlton says. He pulls Joshua out a few feet from the ledge and helps him float on his back.

As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote in a couple of weeks on whether to consider a constitutional ban on gay marriage, Americans are curiously quiet. The majority oppose gay marriage, according to a Gallup Poll that last month found 55 percent of Americans oppose same-sex marriage (down from 65 percent in December) and 42 percent favor gay marriage (up from 31 percent in December). Maybe within the context of the Iraq war and disturbing news of beheadings -- remember when the subject of "beheadings" never came up in conversation?

Winds and rough seas carried off some of the city's new beach this week but it really didn't go very far, city officials say. Some of the missing sand moved just offshore onto the beach's underwater slope, a natural reshaping expected during the year following beach-widening work, said Daniel Marfino, a planner for the city. The process, caused by several days of beach-pounding waves and southeast winds, carved a four-foot ledge along the shore that created a temporary obstacle for beachgoers.

For 6 1/2 months, Wilfred Padua and his girlfriend drank and slept on a ledge under a bridge. They decorated the walls of that shelter under a Woolbright Road bridge with labels of beer bottles they had finished together. Just after noon Thursday, Padua's intoxicated girlfriend fell off the ledge and drowned in the canal between Southwest 18th Street and Southwest Eighth Street, police say. Divers from the Delray Beach Police Department pulled out the woman's body about two hours later.

The wind was blowing hard out of the southeast, and the weather system that brought the breeze was stalled, which made the fishing tough. Luckily we were in the Bahamas, where even a slow day of fishing is better than most good days in South Florida. Although the bites didn't come as fast as we had hoped, Capt. Allen Winchel, Alex Leva, my father, Lloyd, and I still managed to catch more than a dozen red groupers and red hinds, along with a yellowtail snapper, a bonito, a barracuda and a cero mackerel.

DAVIE -- After a week of living on a billboard above State Road 7 to raise money to fight AIDS, Paul Withrow and Elvis Phillips are still $80,000 short of their $100,000 goal. So the two volunteers have decided to entice the public with an unusual gimmick: an HIV test in exchange for a donation. "It`s a good opportunity to get tested," Withrow said. A donation in any amount will buy a blood test, given in a mobile van underneath the billboard by staff from the Morey Positive Health Center of Fort Lauderdale.

From Blue Highways, 1982, by William Least Heat-Moon: Eastward: U.S. 2 up the long canyon of the Middle Fork of the Flathead River. To the north, gusts scoured gritty snow from one wind-shorn peak to another: Mount Despair, Mount Rampage, Mount Scalplock, Mount Doody. In a crevasse I stopped to watch six mountain goats cling to the canyon wall. The mountain goat isn't a goat at all, but rather a relative of the antelope, and one proved it by bounding ledge to ledge, each time sticking like an arrow.

Products recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission: -- Product: "Unishock" suspension forks made by Scott USA Inc. of Boulder, Colo. Bicycle stores sold about 13,600 of the forks with 10 Scott USA model bicycles from August 1992 to June 1995. Forks with white legs bearing the name "UNISHOCKS" are not involved in the recall. -- Problem: The forks can crack or separate, causing riders to lose control and fall. Eight injuries have been reported, including two concussions. -- What to do: Bring the bicycles with the forks to an authorized Scott dealer.